I’m drawn to Dusk because they’re building a Layer 1 for finance the way finance actually works, where confidentiality protects people, auditability protects markets, and regulation is a reality that cannot be ignored.
How it is meant to work
Dusk is shaped as a modular foundation for institutional grade applications, so privacy lives in the protocol while selective disclosure and proofs enable verification when rules require it, and this balance matters because tokenized real world assets and compliant DeFi only scale when participants can share what is necessary without exposing everything.
What to watch and what could break
If adoption grows, it becomes important to measure real usage through settlement activity, asset issuance, validator diversity, and the cost of privacy proofs under load, while being honest about risks like complex cryptography, governance capture, or compliance pressure that could narrow openness, and We’re seeing that stress events are where trust is earned through resilient validators and careful upgrades.
A long term view
Dusk feels like infrastructure built for the decade ahead, and if it keeps shipping with discipline, it can help markets move onchain without sacrificing human dignity or institutional responsibility.